Example sentences of "or [noun] [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without deciding the point , it seems to me arguable that , on the taxpayer 's argument , such loss or part of it would be an expense incurred by the school in providing the concessionary places . |
| 2 | ‘ to pass ahead of the foremost part of another moving motor vehicle , being a vehicle proceeding in the same direction wholly or partly within that area ’ This phrase means that the offending vehicle or part of it must pass ahead of a slower moving motor vehicle travelling in the same direction . |
| 3 | ‘ to pass ahead of the foremost part of a stationary vehicle on the same side of the crossing as the approaching vehicle , the stationary vehicle having stopped to accord precedence to a foot passenger ’ This phrase is the alternative offence to point number 6 and means that the offending vehicle or part of it must pass a stationary vehicle as opposed to a moving motor vehicle in point 6 . |
| 4 | ( 4 ) The holder of any licence or any employee or agent of his shall be guilty of an offence if he commits a breach of any byelaw or any condition attached to a licence by virtue of a byelaw . |
| 5 | Raffle prizes or donations towards them will still be gratefully received by Cicely . |
| 6 | Knee : The knee is a complex joint and a hard kick to the front , side or back of it could produce permanent damage . |
| 7 | Fathers who choose instead to commit acts of oral sex or buggery on them will commit no offence save where the girl 's consent , in the narrow , legal sense of the term , is lacking or where it has been obtained by threat , which may be difficult to prove . |
| 8 | The anonymised records are also going to be held on the mainframe at Manchester , and the complete dataset or subsets of it will be sent elsewhere . |
| 9 | Those social pressures are real , and transgression or rejection of them will be accompanied by transient or even permanent loss of respect , status or goodwill . |
| 10 | ‘ 6(1) A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 11 | The concept is explained in s.6(1) : A person appropriating property belonging to another without meaning the other permanently to lose the thing itself is nevertheless to be regarded as having the intention of permanently depriving the other of it if his intention is to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other 's rights ; and a borrowing or lending of it may amount to so treating it if , but only if , the borrowing or lending is for a period and in circumstances making it equivalent to an outright taking or disposal . |
| 12 | In many situations laws which violate human rights and oppress the population or sections of it can not be broken without endangering the stability or even the very survival of relatively just institutions . |
| 13 | As Faye 's private nurse , she would be filling an important position , and her professionalism or lack of it could make the difference between a healthy baby and another tragic loss . |